Sheriff Cummings is thinking seriously of purchasing the S.F. Haskell house on Western Promenade. No papers have been signed however. It is understood that $5000 is asked for the place.

Chestnuts are to be seen for sale at all the confectionery stores.

“The Mummy and the Humming Bird,” a four act comedy by Isaac Henderson is which John Drew scored a success a few seasons ago, was presented at the Empire Theatre by a strong company headed by W.A. Whitecar and Ethel Brooke Ferguson.

50 Years Ago, 1954

Classified advertising in The Lewiston Daily Sun surely produces results, says Mrs. Flave F. Vose. The local woman advertised for a traveling companion for a trip to New Mexico. She got a reply from Mrs. Alton Starbird of Lisbon Falls. Both women had planned trips at approximately the same time but unknown to each other. Mrs. Vose left Wednesday to join Mr. Starbird at Lisbon Falls and, Thursday, they will start by automobile for Roswell, N. M. where Mrs. Vose son, Sgt. Burton G. Vose, and Mrs. Starbird’s husband are stationed at Roswell AFB. The women will spend the winter at Roswell.

25 Years Ago, 1979

For some people the word “trapper” brings to mind images of a rugged, bearded outdoorsman who easily lifts his living from the wilds of Maine. For others, “trappers” are an inhuman breed of men who grossly mutilate animals by snaring them in huge, steel traps. According to a Lewiston trapper, Jim Roy, both the images and the methods are misrepresented. Roy is president of the newly formed South Central Chapter of the Maine Trapper’s Association.

He’s been trapping for 17 years since he was 12 years old. “There are about 75 to 100 trappers within a 10-mile radius of Lewiston,” he says, “which is the highest concentration of trappers in the state. But we also (produce) the most fur in the state per square mile.”

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